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The leadership pipeline

how to build the leadership-powered company

In this book, three experts show companies how to build their own leaders by understanding the critical passages a leader must navigate, by providing the appropriate development for navigating those passages, and by building the right system for ensuring a full pipeline of leaders now ...

Principles of microeconomics

For the Fourth Edition, 2001 Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz and co- author Carl Walsh thoroughly integrate contemporary economics into the traditional curriculum. Since the publication of "Principles of Microeconomics, Second Edition," in 1997, the explosive development of information technologies has altered the economic landscape in ...

Privatization experiences in the European Union

Experts evaluate the varied outcomes of privatization experiences in Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, and the UK. The trend toward privatization, which began with privatization experiments in the UK under Margaret Thatcher and the deregulation of the telecommunications sector in ...

Connected

24 hours in the global economy

Connected: 24 Hours in the Global Economy isn't another polemic for or against globalization. Daniel Altman takes you on a whirlwind journey through more than a dozen cities, gathering points of view from moguls, ministers, and the man and woman on the street. At ...

Conflictos constitucionales, ponderación e indeterminación normativa

En la práctica jurídica contemporánea es usual que muchas discusiones giren en torno a elementos tales como "derechos fundamentales", "bienes constitucionalmente protegidos", "valores superiores" y otros aspectos sustantivos, normalmente de rango constitucional. Asimismo, la distinción entre "principios" y "reglas", o conceptos como el de "ponderación ...

The clean tech revolution

the next big growth and investment opportunity

In this groundbreaking and insightful book, the authors show how clean technologies such as hybrid electric cars, solar power, and nanotechnology have opened up opportunities for entrepreneurship, investing, and high-growth careers.

The Mary Magdalene cover-up

the sources behind the myth

Mary Magdalene has always been the subject of both popular and scholarly intrigue. Was she the wife of Jesus, his complete initiate, a Goddess or a priestess? Did the Church dramatically alter her image to deny her importance? These questions have inspired representations of her ...

Whose freedom, security and justice?

EU inmigration and asylum Law and policy. Essays in european Law

This book brings together contributions from some of the leading authorities in the field of EU immigration and asylum law to reflect upon developments since the Amsterdam Treaty and, particularly, the Tampere European Council in 1999. At Tampere, Heads of State and Government met to ...

Islam liberalism and Human Rights

This timely book, newly revised for this edition, addresses the question of human rights in the international context, focusing in particular on the interaction between human rights as a value and norm in international relations and Islam as a constituent of political culture in particular ...

Access to social Europe

'Access to Social Europe - 5th Edition' presents the many facets of a wide-ranging policy that has repercussions on the everyday life of all European Union (EU) citizens. The 5th edition has been revised and updated, and provides a comprehensive analysis of the major political and ...

Gender, race and religion in the colonization of the Americas

With outstanding documentation of the importance of local conditions in defining historical outcomes and paying equal attention to North, South, and Central America, Nora Jaffary's compilation is a welcome contribution to the rapidly expanding field of "Trans-Atlantic" studies.Christine Hunefeldt, Professor of History, University ...

Rights of light

the modern Law

This new edition of the popular work "Rights of Light" has been significantly re-written and provides: practical and up-to-date explanation of law and practice including the impact of the Land Registration Act 2002 and recent case-law such as Midtown Ltd v City of London Real ...

Escritos y discursos de la Revolución

El abate Sieyès: principio y fin de la Revolución Francesa. Escritos y discursos de la Revolución

Propiedad y Derecho social

INDICE: La problemática de la propiedad desde la perspectiva del Derecho social. EL Derecho del trabajo y sus principios divergentes de los del Derecho civil: especial examen de las obligaciones en las contratas y la sucesión de empresas. Los créditos laborales en el concurso de ...

Propiedad y Derecho internacional

INDICE: El desarrollo del Derecho internacional privado: sus tendencias actuales y la reforma del sistema español. El título ejecutivo europeo sobre créditos no impugnados. EL estatuto real: aspectos generales. Incidencia de la conferencia de la Haya y del Derecho de la Unión Europea en el ...

La aceptación hereditaria derivada de actos dispositivos concluyentes sobre el caudal

INDICE: Introducción. EL poder de disposición de uno de los herederos sobre el activo hereditario. El poder de disposición de todos los coherederos actuando de consuno. Las diferentes modalidades de acpetación de la herencia: en especial la derivada de actos concluyentes. La repercusión de la ...

Sobre la Ley de Sociedades Profesionales

aspectos prácticos

Introducción. Concepto. Normas por als que se rige. Requisitos de constitución. Constitución por medios distintos de la fundación simultánea. Funcionamiento de la sociedad. Otras especialidades aplicables a las sociedades profesionales. Adaptación a la nueva Ley de las sociedades profesionales existentes en la actualidad. Modificación del ...

Master and servant

love and labour in the English Industrial Age

Leading historian Carolyn Steedman offers a fascinating and compelling account of love, life and domestic service in eighteenth-century England. The book, situated in the regional and chronological epicentre of E. P. Thompson's The Making of the English Working Class and Emily Bronte's Wuthering ...

Shipping conferences under EC antitrust Law

criticism of a legal paradox

Liner conferences are among the oldest surviving cartels in the world. Created in the 1870s they have existed since on all the world's shipping routes. With the approval or tacit acquiescence of governments everywhere, they fix freight rates, control capacity and share markets. The ...

Río arriba

selección de aforismos

INDICE: Prólogo. Selección de aforismos. Ética. Metapoética. Conciencia.